Combination picture-frame.



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F. L.'&. W. G. STIFF. COMBINATION PICTURE FRAME.

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ATTORNEY Noims PETERS co PNOTO-LITHO., wasumarcu. n. cy

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK LINCOLN STIFF AND WALTER GEORGE STIFF, OF FALL RIVER,

' MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINATION PlC TU RE-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,170, dated November 1 1, 1902.

Application filed February 13, 1902. Serial No. 93,930. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: frame a calendar or other illustrative or deco- Be it known that we, FREDERICK LINCOLN rative device, broadly designated in the STIFF and WALTER GEORGE STIEF, citizens of claims as a pictorial device.

the United States, and residents of Fall River, 9 is an outer border made by extending the in the county of Bristol and State of Massabacking-board a suitable distance all around chusetts, have jointly invented anew and usethe glass. This outer border may be printed ful Improvement in a Combination Picturein suitable design or covered by fancy paper.

Frame, of which the following is a specifica- Both borders are preferably of contrasting tion. colors with the glass covering.

10 The details of manufacture are herein fully The use of this device is simple. By the set forth in connection with the accompanyuse of the hinged back a picture 5 is easily ing drawings, wherein like figures of referplaced and clasped by the hinge in exact poence refer to like parts. sition to register with the opening in the cov- Figure 1 is a face view ofthe picture-frame ering, or the picture may be directly placed 15 and covering. Fig. 2 is an edge view open to upon the under side of the glass. The back receive a picture. Fig. 3 is a closed edge is then closed and secured by the edge clips view. Fig. 4 is a finished face view with picto the glass. The calendar is secured to the ture inserted and a calendar attached. Fig. face by the face-clips, and the operation is 5 is a section through the vertical center of finished.

20 Fig. 1, the hinged back board open. Fig. 6 This invention is distinguished from sois a section through the vertical center of Fig. called passe-partouts by the fact that no 4, all parts temporarily closed. Fig. 7 is a edge strips are used to secure the parts tosectional view of a section of the upper part gether, that theinterior is readily visible and of the frame, showing the hinged back board accessible, that the backing-board extends 25 on a larger scale and its method of clasping beyond the frame proper to showa desirable and supporting the picture. edge, and that a calendar or other illustra- The construction of our invention is as foltive or decorative device may be attached to lows: the face of the frame.

1 is a sheet of glass or other similar trans- Having thus described our invention, what 30 parent substance. we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 8o 2 is a covering of paper, leather, or other ent, issuitable material, which covers the face, edge, 1. As a new article of manufacture a picand back of the glass, a suitable opening beture-frame consisting of a sheet of transparing made in the back and front of the coverent medium, a covering of suitable material 5 ing 2, through which the picture is visible. surrounding the same, and framing in an ex- 3 is an interior border made of separate maposed portion of the transparency through terial shaped to correspond with the opening which a picture is visible, *a backing-piece of in the covering-paper and showing a plain or suitable material hinged to the covering, fasfancy edge, as may be desirable. It is setenings bedded in the front part of the cov- 4o cured to either covering or glass. ering to secure a pictorial device thereto, and

4 is a backing of pasteboard or other suitfastenings bedded in the rear part of the covable material, which is hinged to the glass on ering to secure the backing-board thereto top or side edge by a strip 6 of suitable'hingsubstantially as described and shown. ing material. 2. In a picture-frame the combination of a 5 7 represents edge clips of wire or other suitsheet of glass, a covering for said glass hav- 5 able material, which secure the hinged back ing a front and a rear opening exposing a picboard to the glass after a picture is placed in ture placed under the glass, a hinged back position. board, means to secure the back board de- 8 represents face-clips bedded beneath the tachably to the covering, an inserted picture, 50 covering 2, which secure to the face of the and a pictorial device attached to the face of I00 the frame, substantially as described and I securing the back board to the frame, sub

shown.

3. In a picture-frame the combination of a glass plate, acoveringframingin an exposed 5 portion of the glass, an interior border surrounding the exposed portion of the glass, said border being made of separate material, a hinged back board, an interchangeable picture temporarily secured in place by the 10 back board, and edge fastenings temporarily stantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK LINCOLN STIFF. WALTER GEORGE STIFF. Witnesses:

PATRICK HENRY SULLIVAN, JOHN T. SIDLEY. 

